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The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

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Right. Bit of a stinker here. This is one of the original MacRobertson racers, the Harkness & Hillier Monoplane of Sydney, Australia. The story goes it was displayed in a department store for a while to help generate interest and funding. It did not get finished in time for the race but wondered if they flew it afterwards. Anyone have a better photo?<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:eek:ffice:eek:ffice" /><o:p></o:p>
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Will be out of action for a day or so. Declaring open board here-
 
It is Western European, and 4-seater advanced for its day with leading-edge slots, flaps and welded steel tube fuselage.
 
Right, were becalmed again. The stinker was a Bodiansky 20, which was French, from 1930.

Here's one that isn't French..
 
Bodiansky 20? Only a fevered troll through Aviafrance would have brought that one up!

Your new one looks Polish....wait better Czech that...
 
A racer indeed - the Letov S-8 - powered by a Napier Lion, but not quick enough to compete with the West.
 
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